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Understanding the essay
Title
Understanding the essay / edited by Patricia Foster & Jeff Porter.
ISBN
9781554810208
1554810205
Published
Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, ©2012.
Physical Description
xxiv, 261 pages ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab L8799 Zz2012U: Paperbound. From the Phillip Lopate Papers.
Summary
"This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims to treat the essay with the close attention that has been given to other literary genres, and in doing so it suggests the beauty and depth of the form as a whole. At once personal appreciations and acute critical assessments, the pieces collected here broaden our perspective on the essay as a major literary art, tracing its history from William Hazlitt to Joan Didion."--Publisher's website.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 02, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction: "A History and Poetics of the Essay," Jeff Porter
Introduction to David Foster Wallace
Reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," Jeff Porter
Introduction to Anne Carson
Reading "On Trout," Eula Biss
Introduction to Jamaica Kincaid
Reading A Small Place, Donald Morrill
Introduction to Scott Russell Sanders
Reading "Under the Influence," James McKean
Introduction to Joy Williams
Reading "The Case Against Babies," Sara Levine
Introduction to Joan Didion
Reading "Georgia O'Keeffe," Patricia Foster
Introduction to John McPhee
Reading Encounters with the Archdruid, Adam Hochschild
Introduction to Cynthia Ozick
Reading "A Drugstore in Winter," Sven Birkerts
Introduction to James Baldwin
Reading "Notes of a Native Son," Honor Moore
Introduction to Seymour Krim
Reading "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business," Vivian Gornick
Introduction to Ralph Ellison
Reading "The Little Man in Chehaw Station," Gayle Pemberton
Introduction to George Orwell
Reading "A Hanging," Carl H. Klaus
Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading "The Crack-Up," Patricia Hampl
Introduction to Virginia Woolf
Reading "Street Haunting," Marilyn Abildskov
Introduction to Mark Twain
Reading "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," Robin Hemley
Introduction to William Hazlitt
Reading "On the Pleasure of Hating," Phillip Lopate
Introduction to Charles Lamb
Reading "New Year's Eve," David Lazar
Introduction to Jonathan Swift
Reading "A Modest Proposal," Xu Xi
Introduction to Michel de Montaigne
Reading "On Some Verses of Virgil," David Hamilton
Key Terms for the Essay
Contributors.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Essay.
essays.
Essays.
Essays.
Readers (Publications)
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Broadview Press (Firm), publisher.
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